Manage the list of running dovecot instances
doveadm [-Dv] [-f formatter] instance list
doveadm [-Dv] instance remove name | base_dir
The doveadm instance commands are used to manage the list of Dovecot instances running on the server. In most installations there is only one Dovecot instance, but in some cases is may be useful to have more (e.g. running director proxy and backend in the same server).
Instances are added to the list automatically when Dovecot is started. Each instance is uniquely identified by its base_dir setting. Instances can be named by setting instance_name in each instance's dovecot.conf. When an instance is named, it can be accessed easily by giving -iinstance_name command line parameter for Dovecot binaries (e.g. doveadm).
Global doveadm(1) options:
-D
Enables verbosity and debug messages.
-fformatter
Specifies the formatter for formatting the output. Supported formatters are:
flow
prints each line with key=value pairs.
pager
prints each key:value pair on its own line and separates records with form feed character (^L).
tab
prints a table header followed by tab separated value lines.
table
prints a table header followed by adjusted value lines.
-v
Enables verbosity, including progress counter.
name
The value of an instance's instance_name setting.
base_dir
The base directory of a Dovecot instance.
doveadm instance list
This command lists the seen Dovecot instances.
doveadm instance remove name | base_dir
This command removes the specified instance.
Report bugs, including doveconf -n output, to the Dovecot Mailing List <[email protected]>. Information about reporting bugs is available at: http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html